South Korea

For its tenth edition, the 2022 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale aims to create a new discourse in nature art around the rewilding of nature and art, and calls for artworks under the theme of ‘Again, Multiplicities of Rewilding’. Artists can submit model drawings that will be presented at the 2021 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Project Exhibition, running 28 August - 31 October 2021, with selected projects then supported to be fully realised in 2022.

The Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers. Artists and designers working with art and technology are eligible to apply if they are under the age of 35 and/or have graduated within the past five years, and live in a country where there is a Summer Sessions sponsoring partner (Netherlands, Taiwan, Spain, Austria, Russia, China, South Korea, Croatia and Belgium). Each Summer Sessions residency lasts approximately eight weeks and takes place between July and September.

Bucheon City of Literature in South Korea are launching a residency programme of for writers, translators and cartoonists of comics and graphic novels. The residency is for writers and artists who live in member cities of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network or who have been recommended by the Creative Cites offices. It will run for 4-6 weeks from October-November 2021.

Taepyung Salt Farm X LAMPLAB seeks artists to submit entries for the jury-based exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt.’ The winners will be chosen to participate in a residency programme in Shinan, designated a ‘Slow City’, in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, with the opportunity to create work in any of the following format, photography, video, installation, sculpture, or sound with the theme of ‘Dear Friend’. Due to the COVID-19, the Korean government is not issuing new visas for foreigners including tourists. You must either have a visa issued before or have Korean citizenship, or currently in South Korea in order to participate in the residency programme.

The next edition of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism will take place from September to November 2021. Titled ‘CROSSROADS Building the Resilient City’, it will attempt to respond to the complexity of the relationships that shape our cities and to the pivotal moment that humanity is now facing. The current international call for proposals is seeking works that could be featured in SBAU 2021’s main exhibition. The call is open to individuals, institutions, organisations, or cross-disciplinary teams. Deadline: 30 June 2020.

DongGang International Photo Festival will be held this year from 10 July to 27 September 2020 in Yeongwol, South Korea. Photographers are invited to submit their work for the festival. One artist or collective will be nominated as Artist of the Year and 10 to 20 additional artists will be selected to have their work featured in a year-long exhibition that exposes their work at the DIPF Festival. The Artist of the Year will be supported to attend the opening. Deadline: 5 May 2020.

Taepyung Salt Farm X LAMPLAB seeks artists to submit entries for the juried exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt’. The winners will be chosen to participate in a residency programme in Shinan, designated a ‘Slow City’, in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, with the opportunity to create work in any of the following formats: photography, video, installation, sculpture or sound, under the theme of ‘Anticipation for the Future’. The residency will take place over 12 weeks between June and November 2020. Deadline: 3 May 2020.

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is pleased to invite applications for the 2020 MMCA International Research Fellowship. This is a four-month fellowship, running July – October 2020. The programme is open to the art professionals including curators, researchers, critics and educators from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central and South America, who are interested in developing and sharing their research ideas related to Korean modern and contemporary art. Deadline: 3 May 2020.

The Asia Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju, South Korea is calling for Asian choreographers to participate in their LAB incubator and produce a new creative work that addresses contemporary Asian perspectives and values. The successful applicant will be resident at the ACC for three months, July-September 2020. Deadline: 16 April 2020.

V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary centre for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Its Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers, taking place at institutions in six countries. Residencies last approximately eight weeks and take place between June and September. Applications are open to artists from the sponsoring countries: Taiwan, Spain, South Korea, Croatia, China, and Argentina. Deadline: 1 May 2020.

The YATOO International Artist in Residence Programme – organised in Gonju-si, South Korea – provides an environment in which artists are able to concentrate on their artwork while surrounded by beautiful, tranquil nature. Residencies last 1-2 months and take place in the period 6 April – 6 June 2020. The programme is open to artists working in open air sculpture or installation who are active in nature or interested in nature art. Deadline: 1 March 2020.